Combined match-safe and burned-match receiver.



No. 637,236. Pafented'Nov. 2|, I899. .1. A. coLLms.

CUMBINED MATCH SAFE AND BUBNED HATCH RECEIVER.

(Applicuion filed In. 8, 1899.) (No Model.)

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UNTTED STAT S PATENT ()F-FIcE.

JOSEPH A. COLLINS, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

COMBINED MATCH-SAFEAND BURNED-M ATCH RECEIVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,236, dated November 21 1899.

Application filed March 8,1899- Serial No. 708,286. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPI-I A. COLLINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Match and Refuse Receptacle, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in a combined match and refuse receptacle, its object being to construct the device of few parts that can be readily and cheaply assembled and which when assembled willform a receptacle for the good matches and an adjacent receptacle for the burned or used matches.

To this end my invention consists of the match and refuse receptacle having certain details of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, in which like numerals of reference designate like partsin the several views, Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Verse sectional elevation upon line A B of Fig. l with the match-receptacle cover raised;

and Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional elevationupon line A B of Fig. 1 with the body portion raised.

In the drawings the numeral 1 designates the body member, having an open back; 2, a partition dividing the body member into two compartments, the forward one forming the match-receptacle and the rear one the ref usereceptacle; 3, the back member, having the inclined lip 4i thereon and pivotally secured by the pintle 5 to the body member; 6, the match-receptacle cover,also pivotally secured to the body member'by the pintle 7 and having at its rear end an inclined lip 8. Through the upper portion of the back member 3 is a hole 9, which facilitates the hanging of the device against a vertical surface.

The normal position of the parts is shown in Fig. 1, both of the receptacles being closed. The match-receptacle is opened by lifting the cover 6, as shown in Fig. 3, thus allowing a good match to be removed therefrom, after which the cover is allowed to drop to its original position. The burned match is then placed in the trough formed by the lips 4 and Fig. 3 is a trans-' 8, (see dotted lines in Fig.'2,) where it lies until the cover 6 is again raised, when it drops into the refuse-receptacle. The refusereceptacle is emptied by swinging the body member 1 upward upon the pintle 5, as shown in Fig. 4, thus allowing the contents of the receptacle to drop out, the bottom 10 of this compartment being inclined to facilitate the operation.

There are minor changes that can be made within my invention, and I would therefore have it understood that I do not confine my self to the exact construction herein shown, but claim all that falls fairly within the spirit and scope of my invention.

JVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the character described, the combination of a body member havingtwo compartments therein, a cover member covering one of said compartments and pro= jecting partially over the other of said com= partments, a back member pivotally secured to said body member and having a projection extending over the latter of said compartments and joining with the said cover member to form a cover for the said compartments, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the character described,

the combination of a body member having I two compartments therein, back and cover members pivotally secured to said body member, the said cover member covering one of said compartments andformiug with the back member a separable cover for the other of said compartments, substantially as described. 7

3. In a device of the character described, the combination with a body member having two compartments therein, of cover and back members pivotally secured to said body member, and forming a single cover for one of said compartments and a separable cover for the other of said compartments, the said separable cover being preferably formed in the shape of a trough, substantially as described.

4:. In a device of the character described, a body member having two compartments therein, the combination therewith of piv= otally=secured back and cover members.which members form covers for both of the said compartments, one of said compartments being adapted I to be uncovered by swinging either the said body or cover members upon said lips coperating to form a cover for one their pivot-mountings, substantially as de- 0f the said compartments, substantially as scribed. described.

5. In a device of the character described, JOSEPH A. COLLINS. 5 a body member having two compartments, Witnesses:

the combination therewith of cover and back CLAYTON H. REDFIELD, members, having deflecting-lips thereon, the R. J. DILLON. 

